I saw this at Chica’s blog. It seemed fun, so here goes!

Here’s how it works:
1. Go to photobucket.com (don’t sign in)
2. Type in your answer to the question in the “search” box
3. Use only the first page
4. Copy the html and paste

1. What is your name?

2. What is your favorite thing to do?

3.What is your current relationship status?

4.What is your favorite color?

5. Who is your celebrity crush?

6.What are you wearing?

7. What is your favorite movie?

8. What is your favorite beverage?

9.What is your favorite food?

10.What was your favorite vacation?

11.What do you want to be when you grow up?

12. What is your favorite desert?

13.Who is your best friend?

I’m almost halfway through the second season of Torchwood, and just saw some news on the wire about it.

The titles for the episodes for the last half of the second season of Torchwood have just been released:
Episode 8 – A Day in the Death
Episode 9 – Something Borrowed
Episode 10 – From Out of the Rain
Episode 11 – Adrift
Episode 12 – Fragments
Episode 13 – Exit Wounds

The episode titles for the first half of the season are:
Episode 1 – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Episode 2 – Sleeper
Episode 3 – To The Last Man
Episode 4 – Meat
Episode 5 – Adam
Episode 6 – Reset
Episode 7 – Dead Man Walking

In the interest of not having any spoilers, I’ll just say that the show is still highly frenetic and fully charged with intrigue and sexuality, and that the characters I felt didn’t get much rounding or action last season are getting a full treatment so far this season.

I love how the titles of the episodes are almost a suggestion of plotline, then the actual plotline of the show matches, but not in the expected way (for me anyway).

This week, I am highlighting Mache Seibel, who writes and plays health-related songs in the spirit of the old Schoolhouse Rock shows. they are educational, funny, and have good information. He has albums set up with songs geared toward different age groups, and an upcoming album about womens’ health. This song, Think STD’s is from the hilarious “Health Rock: Teen Edition” album, is obviously about STD awareness, and has a brilliant refrain that says “Think STD’s when your BVDs get down to your knees”. It goes very well withe the posts I did about The sex talk, MWTSS and self-awareness. Just the way I approach those “life” talks with the kids: truthful, honest, informative, and fun.

Here is a music shuffle mashup meme I saw at My Thermos:

The deal:

1. Prepare the following list of intriguing questions
2. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, iPod, WinAmp, Xmms, dbProAmp, etc. on shuffle with your full music collection.
3. For each question, press the “next” button to get your answer.
4. Write that song name down no matter how silly it sounds.
5. Hilarity ensues.

My alter ego is:
Candy Man — Dirty

When I’m in the shower I sing:
Soul Kitchen — The Doors

My day will be like:
Honey and the Moon — Joseph Arthur

When I’m drunk I say:
Cheer Up Boys(Your Makeup is Running) — Foo Fighters

Somewhere in my wedding vows I will include:
Flagpole Sitta — Harvey Danger

My makeout song is:
Bring Me Some Water — Melissa Ethridge

My deepest secret is:
You Want the Candy — The Raveonettes

Next time I’m in front of a crowd I’ll say:
Future Baby Mama — Prince

High school was like:
Rainy Monday — Shiny Toy Guns

At my funeral they will play:
Drive On, Driver — The Magnetic Fields

If I reached the top of Mount Everest I would scream:
Words — Shawn Colvin

My ultimate song for dancing is:
I Dare You — Shinedown

What makes me happy is:
Bye Bye Suzy — Marc Ford

To cheer myself up I:
So Excited — Janet Jackson/Khia

The best thing about me is:
One Thing Leads to Another — The Fixx

I’ll have a good day if I hear:
Sunbird — Red Groove

My last words will be:
Adagio Flebile Con Sentimento — Paganini

My best friend is like:
Like This — Kelly Rowland/Sean Paul

What I did last night was:
Knock ‘em Out — Lily Allen

My theme song is:
Lil’ King Kong — Simple Kid

The story of my life is:
Circus Clown, Ten Feet Tall — Hot Bitch Arsenal

At my wedding they will play:
Save Room — John Legend

My favorite thing to do is:
The Moneymaker — Rilo Kiley

Happiness is:
The Missing Frame — AFI

I often think about:
From Nothing to Nowhere — Pinback

My best friend always says:
Ankle Deep — Tom Petty

This is what I want to be when I grow up:
Partners in Crime — Poets and Pornstars

My biggest fear is:
Down on the Corner — Creedence Clearwater Revival

This is how I feel today:
Milk Cow Blues — Nashville Pussy

Some of them kind of make sense. A larger percentage than the one I saw. Not too bad. I’m surprised that a couple of bands weren’t on the list, given the large number of songs I have of them, but that’s the ol’ randomizer for ya…

On an entirely different weekend evening from the Red Letter Agent show, spent appearing at work-related functions, I wrapped up and blazed into the chilled wind, I got to the parking deck and found with great relief that I’d had the foresight to put comfortable clothes in the car.
The clock had already been ticking for a while, and I had seen the Ga Music Concert Series listing, and wanted to be able to see as many bands as possible.
Yes, this one was at Vinyl. It’s a neat venue. The only downside to going to the “cw complex” is that the parking for the building is pretty high. Parking within a block or so is really cheap, but they usually lock up and go home by midnight. So if you park cheap, you have to leave to show really early.
I went through the wardrobe quick-change of magical proportions and drove down into midtown.
After getting parking, I went inside to find that Tendaberry was on stage and in the middle of “Cold Boy”. Hmm. Only two bands for me tonight. Tendaberry is a Post-Punk and Soul inspired band who forged their bonds on the campus of Morehouse College here in Atlanta. I can definitely hear the influences of the Kinks, Sly and the Family Stone, and Arcade Fire. Here are some pictures I snapped:
    
The keyboardist, Shane, was missing that night, but the remaining three showed bare temerity in their play. The Cold Boy and Righteous Waiting tracks got the crowd moving and Jonathan playfully injected some ’60s Soul lyrics into the mix (1967 to be exact), which the crowd really loved.

Now if I appear to be carefree
It’s only to camouflage my sadness
And honey to shield my pride I try
To cover this hurt with a show of gladness
But don’t let my show convince you
That I’ve been happy since you
Decided to go, oh I need you so
I’m hurt and I want you to know
But for others I put on a show
Just like Pagliacci did
I try to keep my surface hid
Smiling in the public eye
But in my lonely room I cry
The tears of a clown

That’s him in the white coat there in the second pic.
After Tendaberry, the last act of the night was The Ski Club. After setting up, they started to play, and the energy level in the place ramped right back up again. John And Kyle more or less tag team the lead song by song, and there are plenty of stage antics going on for the whole show, including smashing of guitars, spilling of drinks, and good-natured tomfoolery. At one point, Cliff tossed an empty PBR can off the stage and actually hit his mock target. Whoops!
Barcelona and Happysad are really good tracks to check out if you haven’t heard them before.
   

      
Overall, it was a great show, and I’m glad I got to see both bands. There were a couple of other bands I wanted to see, but since they are all local, I’ll be sure to catch them another time.

This was a neat little quiz, in-depth, but not too long. The result is interesting because the time of day it returned is very close to the time of day when I was born. Coincidence? Let’s see your results!

I reinstalled the Music Wednesday Plugin and this will be the first post with it.

The Teenagers are a Euro-based alt-pop band who list their base whereabouts as both London and Paris. I’m imagining a boathouse anchored on the channel. The trio’s biggest track to date has been “Starlett Johannson”, which you can sample by hitting the “more by this artist” button right in the player there. If it shows up. :]

I chose the “French Kiss” track because of the way the music helps the lyrics draw you into the suspenseful moments leading up to a first kiss. The nervous energy and odd things you find yourself saying can be comical —when you’re not in the moment anymore. The experince of the very first french kiss is delved into in the lyrics, which is a bit insightful, but how the song captures the nervous moments leading up to it is what really captured my attention. It would have been a good choice for last week, V-D and such. I hope you enjoy it.

We were talking earlier today on Pownce about a lot of the micro-blogging and social “heartbeat” networking sites having periods of downtime lately.

It’s probably just some growing pains as more people start to use them. And since they are all more of a “pulse” setup, they are using the networks differently than a page of information at a time.

I think it was Friday, Twitter was unresponsive, then yesterday, Pownce and then the early morning hours, the same thing happened with Jaiku. They all seem to working just fine now.

Does anyone remember a recent outage at Mahalo Follow? Anyone? Beuller?

There are a lot of different social networks out there, and I’m starting to see a lot of splintering. I hope that we start to see some integration tools soon to help us stay connected and also to not have a deluge of information. Everyone has their own personal limit for information dump, and these networks can certainly cause a flood. I’m supposing that with some open API’s, we would start to see a lot of cross-network functionality. updating your “status” in one place will update that status in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc etc at once, and people who are following you or on your friend list in more than one place would only get a single alert or, optionally, none at all. I’d like to see options for some of this integration, but not necessarily a snowballing effect on social networking as a whole. It’s important that the users are able to separate and maintain “public” and “private” identity as well.

A good example would be to never automatically update linkedin from anything added at facebook or myspace. At least until companies stop cyberstalking, and hire people based on their skills and experience. This might take another few years, and two or three more Petite Anglaise stories, but I definitely hope it comes soon. Not that I have anything to hide: I link everything together. I just know a lot of people who have the need to hide their personal lives from their employers, and I find that incomprehensible.

Then there’s another whole ball of wax when you start to think of integrating dating sites.

I found an article at LLRX that gives an intro to social networking sites and tiny bit of history, just in case you are one of my “less-than-technical” readers.